Obama [indulges in more fuel-guzzling travel for partisan political purposes]

WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama is making a last-minute campaign appearance for New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine's re-election bid.

Obama's scheduled to appear Sunday at a pair of rallies for the only incumbent governor seeking re-election.

Sheridan on track for record cold October

SHERIDAN, Wyo. (AP) - This month is on track to be the coldest October on record in Sheridan.

The National Weather Service says the average temperature in Sheridan so far this month has been 37.2 degrees. The previous coldest October in Sheridan was in 1969, when the average was 38.5 degrees.

Daytime high temperatures topped 60 degrees only three times this month, also a record.

Gerald Warner: Flatulent cows and light bulbs won't kill us, but Cern could - Scotland on Sunday

Meanwhile, those who believe global destruction imminently looms from lightbulbs and cattle will gather at Copenhagen to impose intolerable restrictions on our lives and impoverish the peoples of the developing world. You might call it a democratic deficit.

Hen harrier ‘near extinction in England’ - Times Online

The figures, released by Natural England and the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, are the worst since monitoring began in 2002. They are believed to be the result of a harsh winter and a shortage of prey.

$10 per gallon tax on gas?

Law professor Robert Hardaway disdains the cap-and-trade hokum in favor of the “complete honesty” of a straight $10 per gallon tax on gasoline (10/25, Opinion, “As I See It”). But he actually indicated the real problem as he sees it in the second paragraph of his discussion: all those newborn humans who arrive “spew(ing) carbon” and the various forbidden greenhouse gases.

A real 'pollutant' is the cap-and-trade legislation | tennessean.com | The Tennessean

So, why the big push to demonize CO2? Because it has become the last way for the radical environmentalists to control industry and redistribute its wealth. Were they to somehow develop a way to turn CO2 into oxygen these same people would label oxygen a pollutant, too.

Weather and Climate Through the Eyes of Mark Vogan: Official United Kingdom and Europe Winter Forecast 2009-2010

After a warm, wet and windy November across much of Western Europe, much of the continent will become colder and snowier than normal as December leads into January 2010 with a high potential for near continent-wide snow cover and extreme cold which spreads east to west under a powerful Arctic-Siberian High.

BERNAMA - Inner Mongolia's Cold Snap Brings First Snow To Beijing

BEIJING, Nov 1 (Bernama) -- A cold snap from inner Mongolia has brought the first snow to Beijing early dawn Sunday, two months ahead of winter.
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"It is unusual for cold snap of this level to occur in October...this is the first time that Beijing is swept by cold snap in October since the 1970s," he added.